Authorities executed search warrants relating to Faisal Shahzad's finances.
[Updated at 1:05 p.m.] A federal law enforcement tells Susan Candiotti that the FBI has also conducted search warrants related to the ongoing Times Square investigation at two locations on Eastern Long Island in Suffolk County, NY.
Suffolk County Police spokesman Tim Motz told CNN that officers from that department are assisting the FBI in the execution of these warrants. There have been no arrests.
[Updated at 12:19 p.m.] A third person has been arrested on immigration charges in Thursday's raids in the Northeast, a U.S. official told CNN.
[Updated at 12:08 p.m.] Prompt Printing, a printing shop in Camden, New Jersey, is among the targets of Thursday's raids by federal agents stemming from the investigation into this month's failed car bombing in Times Square, a federal law enforcement source said.
A federal source also says a home in Cherry Hill, New Jersey was raided and that it is believed to be the home of the print shop's owner.
[Updated at 11:41 a.m.] A source close to the investigation says the raids carried out this morning were focused on a system of “cash couriers” who bring money into the United States from overseas. Some of that money is thought to be made available to finance operations like the abortive Times Square attack. The source says the warrants for Thursday’s raids came as a result of the investigation into the Times Square incident, but it has not been determined conclusively if the alleged courier system under investigation is tied to that plot.
The source says two individuals have been under surveillance at least since Wednesday, but could not confirm that they were the individuals arrested today. The source says there is no direct evidence linking those under surveillance to the courier system, but they are being investigated for possible links. The source adds that Faisal Shahzad continues to provide information to investigators. [Updated at 11:23 a.m.] The search warrants being executed in the Northeast on Thursday are related to the probe of Faisal Shahzad's financing, a federal law enforcement source said.
The source said the locations may have been involved in transferring money to Shahzad, the suspect in the recent botched Times Square car bombing. However, there is no specific information to indicate any of the individuals at these locations knew about the Times Square bombing plot, the source said.
[Updated at 10:35 a.m.] A federal law enforcement source says that the two people taken into custody for alleged immigration violations have no direct bearing on the Times Square investigation. The arrests are described as "collateral.”
The two are from Pakistan, according to a U.S. official. One is a so-called "visa overstay." The other was in the process of being removed from
the United States, but had not yet been ordered removed, as he was attempting to adjust his status so that he could stay.
Both were picked up in Massachusetts, the official said, but he did not have more specifics. Both are being processed in Boston, the official said.
[Updated at 10:27 a.m.] Lt. Phillip Harrington of the Brookline Police Department confirmed to CNN that local police are assisting the FBI conduct a search warrant at a Mobile gas station on Harvard Street in Brookline.
[Updated at 10:00 a.m.] CNN affiliate WHDH in Boston is reporting search warrants were executed at a gas station in Brookline, Massachusetts and a home in Watertown, Massachusetts in connection with the Times Square attempted bombing earlier this month.
[Updated at 9:33 a.m.] A federal law enforcement source says that search warrants are being executed in Boston, New York, and New Jersey.
“We can confirm that search warrants have been executed in several locations in the Northeast in connection with the investigation into the attempted Time Square bombing," a Justice Department official told CNN. "Two individuals encountered during the searches were taken into federal custody for alleged immigration violations.
"At this time we can provide no further details as the investigation is ongoing. These searches are the product of evidence that has been gathered in the investigation subsequent to the attempted Times Square bombing and do not relate to any known immediate threat to the public or active plot against the United States.”
[Posted at 9:21 a.m.] Investigators have executed search warrants in several places in the Northeast and detained two people in connection with the attempted Times Square car bombing probe, Boston FBI spokeswoman Gail Marcinkiewicz said Thursday.
"They do not relate to any known immediate threat to the public or any plot against the United States," Marcinkiewicz said.
She said two people have been taken into custody for "alleged immigration violations."
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these people are brainwashed zombies. They tell us that their religion is about love and tolerance yet they abuse women and kill innocent people. They tell us that they believe in peace but their religion tells them to kill all non moslems. send them all back to the desert.
Look Up Christian Extremist sometime.
I don't care if all Muslims are terrorists or not. I wish America would deport all Muslims. Islam doesn't believe that people of other faiths should be able to live their lives according to a religion that is different from Islam. DEPORT THEM ALL!!
I was afraid it was the vendor that informed the police....that would have been the wrong thing to do.
Heywasherelegally...I agree. The Timesquare issue is entirely different from the equally egregious breaching of the borders on our southern side.
The Timessquare attack was clearly done by a fellow who professed allegiance to the US and gained citizenship via underhanded means and then decided to violate that sacred trust.
The illegals breaching our southern borders, simply destroy millions of lives in the US, via the facilitation of importing illegal drugs and other such actions. In addition to overwhelming the support services in this country, like the hospitals, schools and other social services.
Both are equally bad. Just that they act against the country in two entirely different ways. Controlled legal immigration is the answer and not illegal breaching of the borders and flooding into the country.
Hey Mike,
1.neither does Christianity,
2. Deport them where? Many Muslims were born here idiot
It's all allah's fault.
Good for them! I hope they find everylast one involved with this. And as far as the Arizona
Immigration law, more power to them. Apparently the guy in the white house hasn't got the guts or desire to do anythig about it. Hope all of the states that want to get in on the immigration bills...GO For it. enough of this already. The citizens of the US are going to reclaim what is ours.
No, I was never an imigrant. I was born in the USA. And don't try to use that tired old argument that my ancestors were imigrants. They have been dead for 200 years.
You guys sound like a whole bunch of racist, there is violence in all races, serial killers are those Mexicans and muslins?? I bet not. This is a country that takes pride in freedom and a potential for a better life, not all who come here their intentions are to terrorize America, you can't judge a whole race based on some crazy person, educate your self, cause your not an full blooded American your self is not such thing.
i still don't understand why people still have to leave their native countries in 2010 and still find relevance of religion.
Hey herelegally,
I don't care where they go. If deportation isn't available how about another Crusade? Idiot. Just get rid of them!
Heywa...Christianity doesn't tell us to murder people. Islam DOES. we don't get 100 virgins!!!
if this govt. did its job properly and enforce our already exsisting immigration laws, we would not be in this situation!!! We have allowed these illegals to run rampant in our country, collecting welfare, and mind you, no other country in the world would do such a thing, and now when we try to enforce this immigration law, they protest, Obama CLEARLY turned a blind eye to this matter with Arizona, cause we all know he needs his votes come 2012. We should allow so many in per year, instead theres an over-flow and now Americans can't even find jobs, illegal mexicans take jobs from low-skilled americans, these H1-b work visas we have an over flow of pakistannis and Indians comming in here taking up computer jobs from Americans, all for cheap labor, when is this ging to stop?
we have to close the borders, for our own security, and the hell with what others says, this is USA!!!! we have to stand tall!!!
Hey Annie: Why is Ellis Island just a museum now? Maybe if we had a single port of entry, order could be restored and legal immigration brought back.